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Susan Vance

The point is I have a leopard. The question is, 'What am I gonna do with it?'

There is a leopard on your roof and it's my leopard and I have to get it and to get it I have to sing.

[limping after losing a heel] I was born on the side of a hill!

[reading from letter about Baby] "He's three years old, gentle as a kitten, and likes dogs." I wonder whether Mark means that he eats dogs or is fond of them?

[to David] If you had an aunt who would give you a million dollars if she liked you and you knew she wouldn't like you if she found a leopard in your apartment, what would you do?

Dr. David Huxley

[repeated line] I'll be with you in a minute, Mr. Peabody!

[In a dangerous tone, to Susan] Let's play a game... Watch, I'll put my hand over my eyes and then you go away... See and I'll count to ten, and when I take my hand down you will be gone!

There are only two things I have to do: finish my brontosaurus and get married at three o'clock.

How can all these things happen to just one person?

[On the telephone, to Alice] Yes, I did see Mr. Peabody but I didn't see him... Yes, I spoke to him twice but I didn't talk to him.

Susan,... Susan, I don't know, you look at everything upside down. I've never known any one quite like you.

Now it isn't that I don't like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I'm strangely drawn toward you, but — well, there haven't been any quiet moments.

When a man is wrestling a leopard in the middle of a pond, he's in no position to run.

Other

Aunt Elisabeth: Of course I have a niece, but she's not singing around under windows. She's decently in bed.

Dialogue

Prof. LaTouche: Morning, Miss Alice. My watch is—

Alice Swallow: Shh. Dr. Huxley is thinking.

Alice: Why, as soon as we're married, we're coming directly back here and you're going on with your work... Now once and for all David, nothing must interfere with your work. Our marriage must entail no domestic entanglements of any kind.

David: You mean, you mean—

Alice: I mean of any kind, David.

David: Oh well, Alice, I was sort of hoping — well, you mean children and all that sort of thing?

Alice: Exactly. [Gesturing with a sweep of her hand toward the dinosaur skeleton.] This will be our child.

David: Huh?

Alice: Yes, David. I see our marriage purely as a dedication to your work.

David: Well, gee whiz Alice, everybody has to have a honeymoon and, and...

Alice: We haven't time.

David: Well, I might have known you were here. I had a feeling just as I hit the floor.

Susan: That was your hat.

David: ...We've passed this one six times in the last hour.

Susan: Oh, but David, it was such a lovely night for a drive.

Susan: [hurt] You mean you want me to go home?

David: Yes.

Susan: You mean you don't want me to help you any more?

David: Yes.

Susan: After all the fun we've had?

David: Yes.

Susan: [indignantly] And after all the things I've done for you?

David: That's what I mean.

Alice: [of Mr. Peabody] ...A lot depends on the impression you make on him.

David: ...I'll wow him! I'll knock him for a loop!

Alice: David, no slang. Remember who and what you are.

David: Oh yes, that's right.

[Despite David's attempts to convinvce her otherwise, Susan has just played his golfball.]

Susan: You shouldn't do that, you know.

David: What shouldn't I do?

Susan: Talk while someone's shooting. Well anyway, I forgive you because I got a good shot.

David: But you don't understand.

Susan: See, there it is right next to the pin.

David: But that has nothing to do with it.

Susan: Oh, are you playing too?

David: No, I've just driven off the first tee and I hooked—

Susan: I see you're a stranger here. You should be over there. This is the 18th fairway and I'm right on the green.

David: What kind of ball are you playing?

Susan: PGA.

David: And I'm playing a Pro-Flight.

Susan: I like a PGA better.

David: No, I'm just trying to prove to you that you're playing my ball. You see, a PGA has two black dots and a Pro-Flight has a circle.

Susan: I'm not superstitious about things like that.

David: Oh well, that doesn't have anything to do with it.

Susan: Stop talking for a minute, will you please? [To caddy] Will you take out the pin? [She sinks a 25-foot putt!]

David: Oh my, this is so silly. I never saw such — [He reaches for the ball in the cup] There, you see, it's a circle.

Susan: Well of course it is. Do you think it would run if it were square?

David: No. I have reference to a mark on the ball. That proves it's a Pro-Flight—

Susan: I know.

David: —and that's my ball!

Susan: Well, what does it matter? It's only a game anyway.

David: Well, my dear young lady, you don't seem to realize. You placed me in a very embarrassing position... The most important corporation lawyer in New York is waiting for me over on the first fairway.

Susan: Then it's silly of you to be fooling around on the 18th green.

Dr. Lehman: You may have heard me lecture... I usually talk about nervous disorders. I am a psychiatrist.

Susan: Oh! Crazy people.

Dr. Lehman: We dislike the use of that word. All people who behave strangely are not insane...

Susan: What would you say about a man who follows a girl around...

Dr. Lehman: Follows her around...

Susan: And then when she talks to him he fights with her?

Dr. Lehman: Fights with you... Is the young man your fiancee?

Susan: Oh no, I don't know him. I never even saw him before today. [Blithely] No, he just follows me around and fights with me.

Dr. Lehman: Well, the love impulse in men very frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict.

Susan: The love impulse!

Dr. Lehman: Without my knowing anything about it, my rough guess would be that he has a fixation on you.

Susan: Do you know why you're following me? You're a fixation.

David: Oh, I'm not following you. I've been sitting here. I haven't moved from this spot. Now please, you're following me.

Susan: Oh, don't be absurd. Who's always behind whom?

David: Now look, my dear young lady. I haven't been behind anything but what they call the, uh, uh eight-ball. I haven't been all day.